Petrol types

[Mike_K]

Never, ever put 95RON in the car - it is bad for the the engine. The German manual advises against this.

Optimax, or its successor, VPower work best, .........R+C

hi all, 1st post == new S4 owner living in Holland and I was following the links on petrol types. We dont have Optimax over here, but we do have V Power. Having a look at the pump I noticed it said "95 RON" so did some investigating. The dutch shell web-site basically confirms that V Power is formulated according to the market needs, and suggests that "..if your car has an octane need of minimum 98, recommends we you super plus 98 using to continue" (dutch translation using babelfish). See

http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?sit ... _1602.html

for more. Bottom line is dont assume V Power is RON 98 when travelling abroad; it probably isnt. In its place I suppose Super Plus 98 could safely be assumed to be 98 RON

cheers, mike

[Nordschleife]

that is a good warning, thanks. Even in the CZ Republic VPower is about 100

[DavidT]

Yes and welcome to the site Mike.